WRITER

Bernardine Evaristo

1959 - Today

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Bernardine Anne Mobolaji Evaristo (born 28 May 1959) is an English author and academic. Her novel Girl, Woman, Other jointly won the Booker Prize in 2019 alongside Margaret Atwood's The Testaments, making her the first Black woman to win the Booker. Evaristo is Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University London and President of the Royal Society of Literature, the second woman and the first black person to hold the role since it was founded in 1820. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bernardine Evaristo has received more than 930,972 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Bernardine Evaristo is the 6,144th most popular writer (down from 5,837th in 2019), the 5,087th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 5,217th in 2019) and the 573rd most popular British Writer.

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  • 22

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  • 3.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Bernardine Evaristo ranks 6,144 out of 7,302Before her are Liu Xia, David Halberstam, Vikram Seth, Kristina Brenk, Patricia A. McKillip, and Tamara Gverdtsiteli. After her are John Logan, Ahmad NikTalab, J. G. Farrell, Pia Tafdrup, Patrick Grainville, and Mieko Kawakami.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Bernardine Evaristo ranks 446Before her are Yves Rossy, Alessandro Andrei, Janet L. Kavandi, Anil Ambani, David Beauchard, and Michael Spindelegger. After her are Urs Zimmermann, Tomislav Karamarko, Magdi Abdelghani, Nobuko Jashima, Alik Sakharov, and Eiríkur Hauksson.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Bernardine Evaristo ranks 5,087 out of 8,785Before her are Mark Hateley (1961), John Edwards (1953), John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham (1792), James McHenry (1753), Ran Laurie (1915), and Viv Anderson (1956). After her are Steve Toussaint (1965), Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon (1831), Audrey Williamson (1926), Erskine Childers (1870), John James (1914), and J. G. Farrell (1935).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Bernardine Evaristo ranks 573Before her are Roma Ryan (1950), Lady Charlotte Guest (1812), Darren Shan (1972), Dannie Abse (1923), Ann Cleeves (1954), and Reginald Hill (1936). After her are J. G. Farrell (1935), John Addington Symonds (1840), E. W. Hornung (1866), Joyce Cary (1888), Philip Massinger (1583), and Paul Scott (1920).